Erskine was commissioned at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst in December 1960 into the Signal Corps of the Ghana Army. He served in various capacities with the Ghana Army. He was Commanding Officer of the Ghana Signals Regiment and later Director of Communications with the Ghana Ministry of Defence. He later became Director for Operations and Planning at the same Ministry from 1971 to 1972. He was the Chief of Army Staff briefly between January and February 1972. He again held the same position from February 1973 to April 1974.[4]
Erskine was one of the nine members of the National Reconciliation Commission which were appointed by the President of Ghana, John Kufuor in consultation with the Council of State of Ghana. The commission was to investigate human rights abuses committed during the five military regimes which have ruled Ghana.[9][10][11]
General Emmanuel Erskine Research and Documentation Centre
The Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa (CPIA) is a peace organization based in Harare, Zimbabwe. It was established in February 2001[12] and had Erskine as the chairman of the board of trustees.[3] The CPIA has the General Emmanuel Erskine Research and Documentation Centre (GERDC) named in his honor and was officially opened in September 2001 by him.[13] The GERDC also launched the General Emmanuel Erskine Annual Lecture Series. The inaugural lecture was delivered by Erskine.[14]
Other activities
Erskine was the Chairman of the Opportunities Industrialization Centre Ghana Accra Local Programme Committee.[15] He had been a member of the Pugwash council since 1992[16] and was a participant at the 50th Pugwash conference which deliberated on "Eliminating the Causes of War".[17] He served as the Chairman of the Ghana Action Network on Small Arms (GANSA) in 2002.[18]
Erskine, Emmanuel; Kapoor, B.L.; Norton, Augustus R. (1987). Peace, security and humanitarian relief in northern Mozambique: An IPA fact-finding mission. International Peace Academy. pp. 34 pages. ASIN: B00072LYLA.
Erskine, Emmanuel (30 September 1989). Mission with UNIFIL: An African Soldier's Reflections. C Hurst & Co Publishers Ltd. pp. 272 pages. ISBN978-1-85065-048-5.
Peace Keeping Techniques for Africa's Conflict Management. Afram Publications Ghana Ltd. April 2000. pp. 255 pages. ISBN978-9964-70-209-0.
General Emmanuel Erskine Annual Lecture on Peace and Security: Inaugural Lecture Topic, National Reconciliation--The Ghana Experience. Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa. January 2006. pp. 32 pages. ISBN978-1-77926-027-7.
^ abc"BOARD OF TRUSTEES". Official website. Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2008.
^"General Emmanuel Erskine". Official website. Centre for Peace Initiatives in Africa. Archived from the original on 5 October 2011. Retrieved 14 November 2008.